In a landmark moment for advanced eye care in Guyana, Optique Eye Hospital, in collaboration with Trinidad Eye Hospital, successfully facilitated and delivered a highly complex retinal detachment surgery this week at Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation. The patient, a 13-year-old child with a severe retinal detachment in the only seeing eye, faced imminent and irreversible blindness. The...

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Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Dr Vindhya Persaud, has made it clear that she will not tolerate any actions or behaviours that go against the law or the mandate of the Ministry. In fact, she acknowledged the need for changes in attitudes and behaviours within the Ministry. “I know that we have to...

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Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha has warned that countries across Latin America and the Caribbean risk failing their citizens if critical food security targets are not achieved. Speaking at the 39th Session of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Regional Conference, Mustapha stressed the need for urgent action to tackle hunger and...

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…US – Israeli forces hit over 2000 targets …Iran launched 500 missiles, 2000 drones since Saturday The United States and Israel continue to bombard Iran, killing at least 1,230 people since Saturday, as the Israeli military issues forced evacuation orders for the entirety of Beirut’s southern suburbs, home to hundreds of thousands. The deadliest single incident occurred […]

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(Kaieteur News) – Justice Damone Younge on Thursday dismissed the application by embattled businessmen Nazar and Azruddin Mohamed to have their Cambio licence reinstated. The duo facing United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanction on allegations of fraud, money laundering and gold smuggling, had challenged the Bank of Guyana (BOG)’s […]

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DUBAI/WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump claimed the right to join Iran in deciding its ​next leader as the war escalated on Thursday, with U.S. and Israeli jets hitting areas across the country and Gulf cities coming under renewed bombardment. In an interview with Reuters, Trump said Mojtaba Khamenei, the of the […]

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